NATO vehicle I-D: Poland’s Krab (half British, half Korean?)

U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.

Update 2022: Poland’s 2nd Battalion, 5th Artillery Brigade, conduct live-fire on Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, 20JUL2022.  U.S. Army video by Markus Rauchenberger:

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.

Quick U.S. Army video by Christoph Koppers, 19JUL2022:

USA photo by Markus Rauchenberger, 20JUL2022.

Photo via Poland Ministry of Defense.

U.S. Army video, by Master Sergeant Ryan Matson and Grzegorz Czaplicki, near Torun, Poland, 19MAY2021:

NATO Poland took two self propelled artillery gun systems, one from NATO United Kingdom and the other from Korea (South) and put them together, and called it the Krab.

April 2021 video by Bogusław Politowski / ZbrojnaTV (Polska Zbronjna-Poland Armed), giving you an ‘inside’ look at the Krab:

Photo by Arkadiusz Dwulatek/Combat Camera Poland, June 2020.

Photo by Waldemar Młynarczyk/Combat Camera Poland, June 2020.

Presidenski Range in Trzebian, Poland. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Dustin D. Biven, 29NOV2017.

It has the turret and gun system of the British AS-90 Braveheart, and the hull of Korea’s K9 Thunder.  Some are armed with a French gun, while others have a German gun.

Photo via Poland Ministry of Defense, 04SEP2017.

Photo via Poland Ministry of Defense, 04SEP2017.

Poland got Krabs in 2012, this video posted in December 2012 shows the public display of the Krabs, along with a rocket artillery launch. Pay attention, the hulls on these 2012 Krabs are different than the newer Krabs:

Vehicle I-D:  KOREAN 대한민국 K9 THUNDER

TURKISH TEMPEST, NATO Turkey’s modified K9

Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.

Finland’s K9

Soviet era weapons now in use by NATO:

Official acceptance ceremony for Slovakia’s new Zuzana-2, 22JUL2021. Photo via Slovak Ministry of Defense.

DANA AND THE NEW ZUZANA